Turkey closes air space over Incirlik, grounding US aircraft at base

Turkey closes air space over Incirlik, grounding US aircraft at base

U.S. military operations against the Islamic State group out of Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base came to a halt Saturday afternoon as the Turkish military closed the airspace around the base following an attempted coup, a Pentagon spokesman said. Power also was cut to the base and the U.S. was restricting movements of its personnel as…

U.S. Warships Surround Disputed Chinese Waters, Prepared for War: WWIII At Stake

Territorial disputes are a delicate thing… and potentially deadly as well. That’s why the U.S. is backing up its positions with an ever-increasing presence of warships  in the South China Sea. China is very touchy about these territories, and unwilling to give up what they perceive as their waters, even as a UN tribunal just…

Fethullah Gülen: who is the man Turkey’s president blames for coup attempt?

Fethullah Gülen in a 2014 photograph taken at his residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Selahattin Sevi/AP Cleric who leads global Hizmet movement from exile in Pennyslvania, US, is a critic of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and remains influential in Turkish affairs The accusation by Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, that US-based cleric Fethullah Gülen is behind…